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Friday, July 4, 2014

UKRAINE: Tonsure performed at the Lugansk convent during artillery shelling

In the evening of June 30, 2014, His Eminence Archbishop
Metrophanes of Lugansk and Alchevsk made novice Elena
Kuznetsova from St. Olga’s Convent of Lugansk a nun
with the name Agrippina, in honor of Holy Virgin-Martyr
Agrippina of Rome (feast: June 23/July 6). She is the
senior sister of the Kazan Skete of the convent (in the
Shchetovo village of the Antratsyt district).

In spite of the noise from the artillery shelling and bursts of submachine-gun fire from outside, the tonsure ceremony took place in St. Panteleimon’s Church (on the territory of the oncological dispensary) of St. Olga’s Convent in Lugansk as the sisters and clergy prayed, reports the convent’s press service.